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1. $1000 a Minute (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 198
2. -But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
The Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming. At her house he meets Rosine Brown,... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Nora Gregor, Heather Thatcher, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 290
3. A Bride for Henry (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A stood-up bride uses her lawyer as a stand-in for her absent, unreliable fiancé, hoping to get a quick divorce after the media interest dies down. In time, she realizes that she might have wed the right man--but it might be too late.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Henry Mollison, Claudia Dell
Votes: 311
4. A Christmas Carol (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn
Votes: 8,750
5. A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
85 min | Comedy
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Grace Edwin, Yvonne Arnaud
Votes: 135
6. A Damsel in Distress (1937)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine
Votes: 2,381
7. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,585
8. A Fool's Advice (1932)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Frank Fay, Ruth Hall, Nat Pendleton, Berton Churchill
Votes: 111
9. A Night at the Movies (1937)
Passed | 10 min | Comedy, Short
A man and his wife have a less-than-enjoyable time at the movies.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, King Baggot, Jack Baxley, Sidney Bracey
Votes: 482
10. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,764 | Gross: $2.54M
11. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 2,568
12. A Successful Calamity (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 533
13. A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 237
14. A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 1,365
15. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 840
16. Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Walter Brennan, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot, Frank Shields Sr.
Votes: 237
17. Africa Speaks -- English (1933)
Approved | 11 min | Comedy, Short
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy's plane runs out of gas and lands in the African jungle. After a short comedy routine between the two, some natives come by and insist that they stay for ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Francis De Vere, Charles H. Doyle
Votes: 60
18. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,044
19. After the Thin Man (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi
Votes: 12,122 | Gross: $4.34M
20. Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
89 min | Comedy
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox
Votes: 141
21. Algiers (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 3,247
22. Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young, June Lang
Votes: 610
23. Alibi Ike (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 720
24. Alice Adams (1935)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable
Votes: 4,566
25. All Over Town (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being being jinxed.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Mary Howard, Harry Stockwell
Votes: 200
26. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,694 | Gross: $3.27M
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27. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,800
28. Always Goodbye (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman must decide between two men: one she loves, the other she admires and respects.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero
Votes: 629
29. Always in Trouble (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jane Withers, Jean Rogers, Arthur Treacher, Robert Kellard
Votes: 48
30. An Evening Alone (1938)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
With his wife gone for the evening, a man is left alone at home. Left alone to their own devices, men tend to be more thoughtful and analytical in deciding what to do than women. This man ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Rowland | Star: Robert Benchley
Votes: 121
31. An Hour for Lunch (1939)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Comedy
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, John Butler, Don Castle, Jules Cowles
Votes: 148
32. And So They Were Married (1936)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
A bitter divorce and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel cut off by a snowstorm, and begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the romance never gets off the ground.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Edith Fellows, Jackie Moran
Votes: 514
33. Angel (1937)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,210
34. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,205
35. Animal Crackers (1930)
G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 15,270 | Gross: $0.91M
36. Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Movie star Annabel Allison has further comic adventures with her wacky publicity agent.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, Bradley Page
Votes: 337
37. Annie Oakley (1935)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Western
A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen
Votes: 1,896
38. Another Thin Man (1939)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger
Votes: 8,162 | Gross: $3.32M
39. Anything Goes (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino
Votes: 521
40. Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
The invention of an atomic weapon - a long-range ray that can detonate explosions - sends Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into action.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 511
41. Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday
Votes: 513
42. Artist and Models (1937)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick
Votes: 373
43. Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 141
44. Ask a Policeman (1939)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer
Votes: 1,028
45. At the Circus (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker
Votes: 6,467
46. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
Directors: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 7,560
47. Baby Face (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier
Votes: 8,167
48. Bachelor Bait (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
A well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, ... See full summary »
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Rochelle Hudson, Pert Kelton, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 338
49. Bachelor Mother (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson
Votes: 4,610
50. Back in Circulation (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel
Votes: 425
51. Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 674
52. Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort
Votes: 410
53. Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, John Beal, Janet Beecher
Votes: 299
54. Behind the Headlines (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Rosson | Stars: Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Phillip Huston, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 204
55. Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,173
56. Big Business Girl (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blondell
Votes: 434
57. Black Legion (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Votes: 3,919
58. Blessed Event (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 763
59. Block-Heads (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Family, War
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell
Votes: 4,513
60. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven
Votes: 4,543
61. Bombshell (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone
Votes: 3,147
62. Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, William Janney
Votes: 2,106
63. Borrowed Wives (1930)
62 min | Comedy
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Paul Hurst, Sam Hardy
Votes: 183
64. Boy Trouble (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shopkeeper Homer Fitch (Ruggles) hates the changes in his household when his wife adopts two orphan boys but realizes how much he loves the boys when they are struck with scarlet fever.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Joyce Mathews
Votes: 75
65. Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Hay, Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 468
66. Breakfast for Two (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore
Votes: 1,182
67. Bridal Suite (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
An American playboy dumps his greedy fiancee and ends up marrying a woman from the Alps.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen
Votes: 251
68. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 53,268 | Gross: $4.36M
69. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett
Votes: 66,099
70. Broadminded (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
Jack's father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr., Marjorie White
Votes: 362
71. Broadway Bill (1934)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,160
72. Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice. Along the way he sings and woos a sassy secretary Alice.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 351
73. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.
Directors: Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,997
74. Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Music
Drama about three girl graduates of an orphanage whose paths cross.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson, John Litel
Votes: 230
75. Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
Approved | 85 min | History, Musical
A vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.
Directors: Willard Mack, Jules White | Stars: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Jackie Cooper, Russell Hardie
Votes: 349
76. Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Mystery, Romance
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intends to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Reginald Denny
Votes: 1,043
77. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Mystery
Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone.... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 458
78. Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.
Director: Louis King | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 657
79. Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bank robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond and his girlfriend. But this time, after the robbers are caught, it will be celebrated at last.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 524
80. Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In this episode captain Drummond tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value, but Drummond will face the danger.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny
Votes: 654
81. Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
Unrated | 57 min | Adventure, Mystery
Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
Director: Louis King | Stars: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny
Votes: 737
82. Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 655
83. Cafe Society (1939)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy young lady marries a reporter on a bet, but things might not work out so well when he finds out the truth.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Jessie Ralph
Votes: 114
84. Café Metropole (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Paris, a young American is in debt to a nightclub owner who forces him to woo an heiress in hopes of reaping her fortune.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 707
85. Cain and Mabel (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 2,067
86. Calm Yourself (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Advertising executive Preston 'Pat' Patton is fired from his job by Col. Allenby when he discovers him wooing his daughter Mary Elizabeth. Pat tries to remain calm and starts the agency '... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 169
87. Captain Blood (1935)
Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 16,098 | Gross: $2.96M
88. Captain January (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,499
89. Captains Courageous (1937)
G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 10,923
90. Carefree (1938)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear
Votes: 4,315
91. Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 1,634
92. Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 1,879
93. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Mystery
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno
Votes: 1,806
94. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,833
95. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 2,268
96. Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Mystery
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck
Votes: 1,601
97. Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation, Charlie discovers the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth
Votes: 2,167
98. Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins
Votes: 1,842
99. Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Open | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Charlie visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeeper, to a stableman, to a lawyer.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie
Votes: 2,168
100. Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Mystery
Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.
Directors: Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 1,749
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